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8 changes: 8 additions & 0 deletions config.json
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"prerequisites": [],
"difficulty": 2
},
{
"slug": "resistor-color",
"name": "Resistor Color",
"uuid": "b3a20fd8-72ef-4adf-a2d7-f47c669caa69",
"practices": [],
"prerequisites": [],
"difficulty": 2
},
{
"slug": "resistor-color-duo",
"name": "Resistor Color Duo",
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# Instructions

If you want to build something using a Raspberry Pi, you'll probably use _resistors_.
For this exercise, you need to know two things about them:

- Each resistor has a resistance value.
- Resistors are small - so small in fact that if you printed the resistance value on them, it would be hard to read.

To get around this problem, manufacturers print color-coded bands onto the resistors to denote their resistance values.
Each band has a position and a numeric value.

The first 2 bands of a resistor have a simple encoding scheme: each color maps to a single number.

In this exercise you are going to create a helpful program so that you don't have to remember the values of the bands.

These colors are encoded as follows:

- black: 0
- brown: 1
- red: 2
- orange: 3
- yellow: 4
- green: 5
- blue: 6
- violet: 7
- grey: 8
- white: 9

The goal of this exercise is to create a way:

- to look up the numerical value associated with a particular color band
- to list the different band colors

Mnemonics map the colors to the numbers, that, when stored as an array, happen to map to their index in the array:
Better Be Right Or Your Great Big Values Go Wrong.

More information on the color encoding of resistors can be found in the [Electronic color code Wikipedia article][e-color-code].

[e-color-code]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_color_code
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node_modules
**/*.res.js
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let colors = [
"black",
"brown",
"red",
"orange",
"yellow",
"green",
"blue",
"violet",
"grey",
"white",
]

let colorCode = s => colors->Array.findIndex(item => item == s)
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let colors: array<string>
let colorCode: string => int
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{
"authors": [
"therealowenrees"
],
"files": {
"solution": [
"src/ResistorColor.res",
"src/ResistorColor.resi"
],
"test": [
"tests/ResistorColor_test.res"
],
"example": [
".meta/ResistorColor.res",
".meta/ResistorColor.resi"
]
},
"blurb": "Convert a resistor band's color to its numeric representation.",
"source": "Maud de Vries, Erik Schierboom",
"source_url": "https://github.com/exercism/problem-specifications/issues/1458"
}
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